Most Popular People Who Died In "Costa Mesa/ California/ USA"

James GammonActor, The Iron GiantRugged-looking James Gammon first broke into the entertainment industry not as an actor but as a TV cameraman. From there, his weatherbeaten features, somewhat menacing attitude and a tough-as-nails voice--the kind that used to be described in detective novels as "whiskey-soaked"--reminiscent of '40s...

Heather JoyActress, Eye Fucked Them AllGorgeous, buxom, and shapely 5'2" brunette knockout Heather Joy was born on August 11, 1985 in New Jersey. She was half Italian and half Japanese. Heather worked as a visual director for the department stores Macy's, Forever 21, and Bloomingdale's in New York City from 2004 to 2008. Joy did her first nude photo shoot for the website SuicideGirls.com in 2005...

Tex BenekeSoundtrack, Babe: Pig in the CityThe popular singer and saxophone player began with the Ben Young Orchestra (1935-1937), and joined the Miller band in 1938, becoming one of the bands's most popular personalities and soloists (though he was not seen or even referred to in The Glenn Miller Story). His personality and talents led him to the top of the Downbeat and Metronome magazine polls...

Clyde McLeodActor, My Favorite YearClyde McLeod has been a movie extra since 1938. He's been directed by Charles Chaplin, Frank Capra, and Cecil B. DeMille. He's been a stand in for such actors as Anthony Quinn, Ronald Reagan, Rock Hudson, Tex Ritter, among others. Becoming a principal actor has never been his goal. "I got into the business because it was what my mother wanted me to do," said McLeod in 1985...

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Robert M. HaasArt Director, The Maltese FalconA graduate in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, Haas spent his first two years in Hollywood at the art department of Famous Players Lasky (1919-21), as a set designer and builder. He received early acclaim from the journal American Architect for a town in Elmhurst, New York, he had constructed for the movie The Copperhead...

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Frieda PushnikActress, House of the DamnedFrieda Pushnik was born armless and legless after her mother had an appendix operation while pregnant. As a child she was "drafted" as a resident guest of sideshows with both "Ripley's Believe it or Not" and the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus". She was part of sideshows from 1933 to 1956, when such attractions were outlawed as "exploitive".

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Alice HollisterActress, From the Manger to the Cross; or, Jesus of NazarethAlice Hollister born in Massachusetts in 1886. Convent educated. Became a popular figure in more than 90 silent melodrama and crime films, a dark-haired beauty, perhaps the screen's first 'vamp', joined the Kalem Film Company along with her husband pioneering cinematographer George K. Hollister, she made her film debut in 'By a Woman's Wit' under the direction of Sidney Olcott in 1911...

Ezra FeeArt Department, Most WantedEzra was a brilliant jack of all trades, and master of many. He had a personal force and charisma that was unmatched. He lived a life of risk and freedom that was incongruous with today's highly regimented Western society, and it was struggles with addiction and law enforcement which ultimately led to his tragic demise...